‘Capitalism must go!’ Jonty Leff tells Walthamstow Trades Council hustings
‘I BELIEVE that young people and working class people are being treated very badly by the capitalist system,’ Workers Revolutionary Party candidate Jonty Leff,...
Voting Wrp In Walthamstow
‘I AM voting for Workers Revolutionary Party candidate Jonty Leff because the WRP are the only party fighting for a future for young people,’...
NHS ‘savings’ from wage cuts!
SAVINGS in the NHS over the past five years have been paid for by the workforce, a pre-election health debate heard yesterday. The packed hustings...
‘HAND OVER YOUR CASH!’ Syriza orders municipalities & hospitals – to pay IMF
GREECE has ordered its public sector bodies to hand over any reserve cash to help it meet a payment due to the International Monetary...
NHS Execs ‘Gravy Train!’
DOCTORS’ and nurses’ representatives yesterday condemned last year’s £35m of massive pay rises for NHS trust chief executives, while NHS staff have suffered pay...
Vote Wrp – Says Scott Dore Campaign
NEW young members joined the Vote Scott Dore WRP campaign team in West Ealing on Saturday afternoon. Atef Azeb, aged 17, said: ‘I don’t like...
‘English Only Spoken Here’ Says Miliband
IN a speech on immigration in the Wirral, north-west England, on Saturday, Ed Miliband pledged a Labour government would make sure everyone in Britain...
‘We’re marching to save Ealing Hospital’
‘WE ARE marching on Saturday 2nd May to defend Ealing Hospital A&E and Maternity Departments,’ Scott Dore, Workers Revolutionary Party candidate for Ealing Central...
A&E Waiting Times Crisis!
WEEKLY national figures from NHS England yesterday showed it has missed the four-hour A&E waiting time target for the 28th consecutive week. The proportion...
Government Is Wasting Money On Free Schools – Say Teachers
TEACHING unions yesterday condemned the Tory-led coalition government’s free-school policy, as more than half a million families were discovering which primary schools their children...
‘Staff freeze’ and £22bn of cuts for NHS
THE NHS is facing a ‘substantial financial problem’ which politicians are ignoring in the election campaign, its former head, David Nicholson warned yesterday. Warning of...
‘Don’t ignore GPs crisis!’ BMA warns political leaders
A THIRD of GPs are considering retiring from general practice within the next five years according to the latest figures from the BMA’s survey...
Bangladeshi parents fighting back
PARENTS and families of disabled children in Bow in East London are fighting back against the closure of the Bangladeshi Parents Advice (BPA) Service...
Tory Plans Require ‘Cuts Of Tens And Tens Of Billions’ Says Ifs
THERE was incredulity yesterday when Cameron declared the Tories are ‘the party of working people’, adding that the ‘good news in the economy’ was...
Miliband Pledges 5 Years Of Cuts For Workers!
ED Miliband yesterday assured the bankers that a Labour government would cut the current account deficit in each year of its office. Launching his party’s...
‘Fewer Nurses Providing More Care’– Rcn
‘WHOEVER forms the next government must grow the nursing workforce,’ Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Chief Executive & General Secretary Dr Peter Carter warned...
Wrp Election Office Opens
WALTHAMSTOW’S WRP election premises were opened on Thursday evening to a loud cheer from campaigners and supporters who had gathered outside the shop. Workers Revolutionary...
Greek workers fighting while Russia & China queue up to buy!
THE Greek National Federation of Railworkers (POS) has expressed its ‘disappointment’ at the government’s intention to privatise TRAINOSE (Greek Railways). In a statement issued on...
Labour refuses to commit to stop hospital closures!
‘EALING Hospital A&E and Maternity must not close and it’s a disgrace that the Labour candidate refuses to commit to this,’ Scott Dore, Workers...
Miliband Doesn’t Blame The Banks
LABOUR leader Ed Miliband yesterday pledged a Labour government would abolish the non-domicile rule that allows some wealthy UK residents to limit the tax...
RMT Industrial Action Vote
RAIL union RMT confirmed today that it has declared a dispute and is preparing an industrial action ballot on Great Western services. This is after...
Welfare and spending cuts are leading to more food banks!
THE expansion of food banks across the United Kingdom is associated with cuts in spending on local services, welfare benefits and higher unemployment rates,...
Riot police attack villagers! – under orders from Syriza
HUNDREDS of mineworkers armed with wooden sticks, employed at the Skouries gold mine in the Khalkidiki area of northern Greece, on Sunday morning supported...
Opportunist SNP! –would not vote against NHS privatisation in England
THE SNP would not vote against privatisation in the English health service provided it has no impact on Scottish spending, Scottish Health Secretary Shona...
Agency staff costing NHS £2.5bn a year!
A FAILURE to train enough staff in the NHS is leading to an over-reliance on agency staff, locums and overseas recruitment which is wasteful...
Syriza Declaring War On Seafarers!
THE Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) and Independent Greeks party (ANEL) coalition government, has confirmed that it is to implement a privatisation programme. This...
Piraeus port to be privatised! – Greek workers are furious
BOTH the Greek Port Workers’ Union and the Greek Seafarers’ Union on Monday condemned the Greek government’s intention to privatise the port of Piraeus,...
KPMG paid £10m to recommend NHS closures
LABOUR has demanded the publication of reports costing £10 million, paid by the NHS to management consultants KPMG, which recommended closing hospitals and axing...
Miliband talks productivity to the bosses – wants partnership with business and bankers
LABOUR leader Ed Miliband, put on his Tory hat yesterday when he launched his party’s Business Manifesto, at business news agency Bloomberg and...
Defend Manchester NHS!
OVER 400 trade unionists and supporters rallied and marched in central Manchester yesterday in opposition to the Tory ‘Devo-Manc’ plan to fragment and privatise...
Reject Devo Manc To Defend The NHS!
GREATER Manchester Association of Trades Union Councils (GMATUC ) has called a mass NHS emergency protest rally for Sunday to protest against the plan...
North Sea Oil Jobs Axe!
UNITE yesterday warned of ‘a dangerous and quickening race to the bottom’ in the UK’s offshore oil and gas industry as oil giants Shell...
Not guilty verdict in secret state trial
LAW student Erol Incedal has been cleared at the Old Bailey of planning a terrorist attack in a secret prosecution, closed to the public. Turkish-born...
‘ANOTHER SLAP IN THE FACE!’ – Duggan family slams cover-up
‘ANOTHER slap in the face!’ was the verdict of Pam Duggan in response to Tuesday’s Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) report which cleared ...
‘We support LSE occupation!’
OVER 100 defiant occupying students at the University of Arts London (UAL) were joined by students from the LSE occupation and other universities and...
‘Don’t Play Games With A&E!’
‘NO more games with our A&Es,’ doctors demanded yesterday in the wake of the intense A&E crisis over the winter. Doctors union, the BMA, said...
East London families march against disability cuts
AROUND 100 angry family members demonstrated against the threatened closure of their Bangladeshi Parent Adviser (BPA) service yesterday, marching from Chrisp Street Market in...
NHS Staffing Crisis!
THE ROYAL College of Nursing have warned of a ‘woeful lack’ of trained nurses as it emerges that untrained care assistants are ‘putting patients...
Crucial Tsipras-Merkel talks
GREEK Prime Minister Tsipras is meeting German Chancellor Merkel in Berlin today, with officials in Brussels, Berlin and the ECB now openly acknowledging the...
Greek Students Mobilise!
REPRESENTATIVES of Greek students’ unions along with hundreds of university students carried out mobilisations last Thursday in Athens and Thessaloniki. The three main demands of...
‘LSE is occupied!’
LSE occupation statement ‘Why we are occupying We have occupied the Vera Anstey Suite, the central meeting room of the university administration, to demand a change...
Limehouse ‘Save Our Surgeries’ protest
EAST London GPs, patients and supporters yesterday staged a protest in Limehouse against cuts in funding that threaten to bankrupt around a dozen surgeries...